Ray Parer montage

P3/295

fonds

between 6 July 1967 and 31 January 1970

Graphic Materials, Photographs

913800

1 photographic print - 44 x 61 cm

Mary Josephine Parer was born on 6 March 1903 in Melbourne, Victoria, one of nine children and sister of Raymond John Paul Parer. On 13 September 1926, under the name Mary Wfred Parer, she married Henry Emmett Shiel, with whom she had three daughters. She died in 1982 and is buried in Brisbane, Queensland.

Source:
Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria. Accessed 28 March 2024. https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/6604d9da14c340250ffc0226

Library correspondence file.

Photographic print copy of a montage of photographs about the life of Ray Parer around his travels as an aviator between England and Australia and to Papua New Guinea. The montage includes a written account by him entitled "Memories of Cooktown, Port Douglas and Somerset" signed 27 January 1967. All photographs are annotated with names of individuals and dates.

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Mary W. Shiel
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Montage created by Mary W. Shiel for Sir Raphael Cilento, President of the Queensland National Trust, for display in the Cooktown Museum, Queensland.

Copy: print made at unspecified date from original montage.
Date range based on death date of Ray Parer, 5 July 1967, recorded on the photographic copy print, and date of the letter sent to the Library by Mary W. Shiel in relation to the print on 31 January 1970.